User talk:Maximusnukeage~enwikinews

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Missile story
Thanks, Maximusnukeage, for adding more information. The article looks better now. I suggest that you check google news for more updates so you can add more information to the article.  —FellowWiki Newsie 15:01, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your thanks! I will. Maximusnukeage 15:02, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

North Korea
Here's a few things I've noticed about your coverage of North Korea:


 * Avoid the alphabet soup of DPRK or its variants (DPR of Korea, etc.). It's sufficient enough for the country to be identified as North Korea. Keep it simple.
 * A country is an "it", not a "they".
 * You tend to use too many wikilinks. Use them sparingly, and when you do use them, verify that they actually connect to the subject you intend them to link to.
 * Also, avoid using wikilinks as a way of loading words in your story with double meanings. This is POV, pure and simple. Avoid the use of wikilinks for generalities.
 * Make sure you attribute sentences and statements to the people that said them. POV creeps in when you have too many unattributed statements. You're not writing news stories, you're rewriting news stories and reporting what was already reported. It's important to state where the information you are reporting came from and who said what. Just listing the sources isn't sufficient.
 * On North Korea invites International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors (a headline changed because of too much alphabet soup, like DPRK and IAEA), I suspect you are using way too many sources, given the article's length. Any sources that aren't being used can be jettisoned. Or, conversely, the story could be expanded. You need a minimum of two sources to start with, so you're doing great. If you're listing more sources, then information from each source must be used. Listing so many sources like that makes it difficult for other editors to check your work. I ask you this: Why make things difficult? Wisekwai 19:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Gotcha! Maximusnukeage 12:22, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Maximusnukeage. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Maximusnukeage~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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